[Gretl-users] Re: Gretl on OS X Leopard

[Neil Hepburn]

I also discovered that Gretl did not play well with X11 running on  
Leopard. However, I have found that the solution is to manually start  
X11 first and then start Gretl and then everything works fine.

Cheers,
Neil

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Neil Hepburn, Economics Instructor
Social Sciences Department, Augustana Faculty
University of Alberta, Camrose Campus

Phone (780) 679-1588
email nhepburn at augustana.ca


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> From: Gordon Hughes <G.A.Hughes at ed.ac.uk>
> Date: December 2, 2007 11:30:38 AM MST (CA)
> To: gretl-users at lists.wfu.edu
> Subject: [Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard
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>
> This is a general warning.  I have recently upgraded the version of  
> OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard).  I have found that Gretl  
> does not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard.  Nor  
> am I able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme  
> pdf file because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/...  
> specified.  I was able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4  
> (Tiger) of OS-X without any significant difficulty.
>
> From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of  
> unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so  
> that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work  
> with Leopard until these problems are sorted out.  This is not  
> important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a  
> Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion.  However, for  
> those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned  
> upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later) with  
> a version of X11 that functions properly.
>
> Regards
>
> Gordon Hughes
>
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> Professor Gordon Hughes
> Department of Economics
> University of Edinburgh
> 50 George Square
> Edinburgh EH8 9JY
> United Kingdom
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> E-mail : G.A.Hughes at ed.ac.uk
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> From: Sven Schreiber <svetosch at gmx.net>
> Date: December 2, 2007 1:22:31 PM MST (CA)
> To: Gretl list <gretl-users at lists.wfu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Gretl on Mac OS-X Leopard
> Reply-To: Gretl list <gretl-users at lists.wfu.edu>
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>
> Gordon Hughes schrieb:
>> This is a general warning.  I have recently upgraded the version of  
>> OS-X on a Mac to version 10.5 (Leopard).  I have found that Gretl  
>> does not seem to work with the new version of X11 in Leopard.  Nor  
>> am I able to follow the debugging instructions given in the Readme  
>> pdf file because I cannot get to the directory Gretl.app/...  
>> specified.  I was able to get Gretl to work with version 10.4  
>> (Tiger) of OS-X without any significant difficulty.
>
> With 1.6.5 I could not start gretl on OS 10.5.0 by double-clicking,  
> either. However, I was able to start it by typing ./gretl in the  
> appropriate place. Could you be more specific why that didn't work  
> for you or what happened?
>
>>
>> From brief investigation it seems that Apple has a large number of  
>> unresolved problems with X11 in the initial release of Leopard, so  
>> that I suspect that it may not be worth trying to get Gretl to work  
>> with Leopard until these problems are sorted out.  This is not  
>> important for me because I can use Gretl on a Windows PC or on a  
>> Windows virtual machine on my Mac via VMWare Fusion.  However, for  
>> those without such options it may be worth postponing any planned  
>> upgrade to Leopard until they release version 10.5.1 (or later)  
>> with a version of X11 that functions properly.
> 10.5.1 is out already. And I was able to compile and start (the pre- 
> release version of) gretl 1.7.0 on OS 10.5 from source as described  
> on the gretl mac page. (However, it took a while because all the  
> other fink packages also had to be compiled, because there wasn't a  
> pre-compiled fink version for 10.5 available yet.)
>
> But I haven't tested the current 1.7.0 dmg, there may very well  
> remain some problems. All I'm saying is that there don't seem to be  
> any fundamental problems in using gretl 1.7.0 on os 10.5 (practical  
> problems notwithstanding).
>
> thanks,
> sven
>
>
>
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